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How FIFA's Banishment of Third-Party Ownership Runs Counter To Notes: O Colapso do “Joga Bonito”: How FIFA’s Banishment of Third-Party Ownership Runs Counter to European Union Law and Has Tarnished the Once Beautiful Game Brendan A. Bailey ABSTRACT FIFA banned the practice of third-party ownership, the division and sale of a portion of a football player’s economic rights to an outside investor, in 2015. The ban was nondiscriminatory, applying to all types of third-party ownership utilized throughout football. Since then, the practice has all but disappeared internationally, with FIFA quashing occurrences of the practice through large fines and other forms of punishment. FIFA’s move to ban the practice came shortly after pressure from leagues that banned it years before—principally the English Premier League, one of the most influential leagues in Europe. However, such a ban was largely propped upon a report completed by the International Centre for Sports Studies that provided questionable conclusions. The disclaimers provided alongside the conclusions of the report would lead any reasonable person to conduct further research on the subject before instituting such an aggressive ban. FIFA’s ban runs counter to European Union law, butting against decisions from the Court of Justice of the European Union, European Union articles and agreements, and even certain countries’ independent legal codes. This Note hopes to pull the wool away from football supporters’ eyes and perhaps mobilize a group of legally conscious scholars to bring action against FIFA to force compliance with EU law. Beyond that, this Note proposes a new regulatory regime to replace FIFA’s complete ban. Such regime would permit one type of third-party ownership (financing TPOs, used primarily by clubs with struggling balance sheets) that would fully comply with EU law and likely receive deference from EU entities due to FIFA’s stance as an expert within its market sphere. 179 180 VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW [VOL. 52:179 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................... 181 II. BACKGROUND ..................................................................... 184 A. History of Player Ownership ................................... 184 1. Overview of the Normal Transfer ................ 184 2. The Transfer Process Including TPO ........... 185 B. Parsing Through the Intricacies of TPO ................ 187 1. Economic v. Federative Rights ..................... 187 2. Types of TPO Transactions ........................... 189 C. League Responses to TPO Arrangements ............... 192 1. Leagues Banning TPO .................................. 193 a. English Football Association & English Premier League .................. 193 b. Polish Football Association .............. 194 2. Leagues Permitting TPO .............................. 194 a. Spain & Portugal .............................. 196 b. Eastern Europe & South America .... 197 3. FIFA—Article 18, Article 18bis, Article 18ter ............................................................... 198 a. Article 18: Special Provisions Relating to Contracts between Professionals and Clubs ................... 198 b. Article 18bis: Third-Party Influence on Clubs ............................ 199 c. Article 18ter: Third-Party Ownership of Players’ Economic Rights ................................................ 199 III. ANALYSIS ........................................................................... 200 A. Applicability of FIFA Regulations in Relation to Domestic League Rules ........................................... 200 B. CIES Report ............................................................ 201 C. European Law and TPO ......................................... 202 1. European Union Law .................................... 203 a. 2001 Agreement: European Commission and FIFA/UEFA .......... 203 b. Solidarity Mechanism………………… 203 c. Free Movement of Players..…………... 205 2. Court of Justice of the European Union ...... 209 a. Bosman ............................................. 210 b. Meca-Medina .................................... 212 3. Country-Specific Laws Conflicting with FIFA Regulations .......................................... 214 a. Austria .............................................. 214 b. Brazil ................................................. 215 4. Article 65 of the TFEU .................................. 217 5. Article 154 of the TFEU ................................ 217 IV. SOLUTION ............................................................................ 218 A. Investment and Financing TPO Refresher ............ 219 2019] THIRD-PARTY OWNERSHIP 181 B. Solution: A New Regulatory Structure ................... 220 C. How this System Rectifies Current FIFA Defects .. 224 V. CONCLUSION ...................................................................... 227 I. INTRODUCTION Carlos Alberto Martínez Tévez was born in Ciudadela, Buenos Aires on February 5, 1984.1 Tévez grew up in the ghetto of Ejército de Los Andes, an area better known as Fuerte Apache by locals, where Tévez received the nickname “El Apache.”2 From the beginning of his football career, Tévez was effectively constrained by red tape, facing both league-registration and ownership-right issues.3 For example, Tévez was forced to adopt his mother’s surname as a child due to a conflict between his two boyhood clubs, All Boys and Boca Juniors, during his transfer from the former to the latter.4 After staking his claim at the top of Argentinian football, Tévez looked toward Europe for his next challenge. In 2007, Tévez made his move to Europe, transferring to West Ham United Football Club in London, England.5 Tévez’s arrival in England was not smooth, though, as he was immediately thrust into an investigation launched by the English Premier League (EPL) in regards to the third-party ownership (TPO) structure of his rights before moving to England.6 While the investigation continued, Tévez played one season for West Ham, but was ultimately told to move on and landed a contract with another EPL club in Manchester.7 Worldwide TPO regulations conflicted with one another at the time. Different leagues possessed different regulatory codes safeguarding or forbidding TPO, leading to confusion when players 1. Biography of Carlos Tevez, ASSIGNMENT POINT, http://www.assignmentpoint .com/arts/biography/biography-of-carlos-tevez.html (last visited Nov. 7, 2018) [https://perma.cc/F42N-LX9E] (archived Nov. 2, 2018) [hereinafter Tevez Biography]. 2. Vannyhenrico, Carlos Tevez Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts, LIFE BOGGER (June 19, 2016), https://lifebogger.com/carlos-tevez-childhood-story-plus- untold-biography-facts/ [https://perma.cc/75HN-7B2K] (archived Nov. 2, 2018). 3. Tevez Biography, supra note 1 (discussing the difficulties Tevez has had with registration in certain football leagues and with third-party ownership issues). 4. Id. 5. Danny Nazareth, Flashback to 2006: Tevez and Mascherano’s shock transfer to West Ham, SPORTSKEEDA (Oct. 28, 2015), https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/ flashback-2006-tevez-mascherano-shock-transfer-west-ham [https://perma.cc/J43K- M53A] (archived Nov. 2, 2018). 6. David Ornstein, West Ham charged over Mascherano and Tevez deals, THE GUARDIAN (Mar. 2, 2007), https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/mar/03/ newsstory.sport8 [https://perma.cc/U8ZC-FUZH] (archived Nov. 2, 2018). 7. Tevez Biography, supra note 1. 182 VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW [VOL. 52:179 transferred from continent to continent or country to country.8 The prolonged transfer sagas that plagued Tévez’s career during his time in England eventually led to changes in both EPL and Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) regulations regarding TPO.9 Tévez’s transfer issues serve as a cautionary tale for players looking to enter into FIFA-regulated leagues, as FIFA has recently promulgated regulations banning the practice of TPO.10 Unfortunately, some players are not aware that their rights have been sold or that the practice is even illegal. They operate under the assumption that if they work hard, they can play their way out of unfortunate situations and into the most competitive leagues in the world.11 Throughout the history of the sport of football, or, as commonly referenced in the United States, soccer, regulations of player- ownership structures have remained largely untouched. Up until May of 2015, FIFA had yet to promulgate any worldwide regulations affecting the division of player ownership between multiple parties.12 Following increasing pressure from select major football leagues and associations, such as the EPL and English Football Association (English FA), FIFA decided to completely ban the practice of TPO, an ownership scheme where an outside investor owns a percentage of a club’s player.13 TPO is generally defined as “the Agreement between a Club and a Third Party . in accordance to which, a Third Party, whether or not in relation with an actual payment in favour of a club, acquires an economic participation or a future credit related to the eventual transfer of a certain football player.”14 Many different individuals and sources can be labeled as third parties; a few examples are investment funds, companies, sports agencies, agents, and private investors.15 Football provides avenues for the movement of athletes between teams completely dissimilar to those offered by any domestic American sports league. The velocity with which players transfer between European football clubs stands unparalleled to any free-agency
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